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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
People
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Help
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
People
"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."
Art
"There is no wealth but life."
Life
"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
Strength
"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
Being
"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."
Thought
"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
Poetry
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
Life
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